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My Dad is a bit of a clever-clogs at the moment.
When he confidently predicted that Chelsea would beat Barcelona in the Champions League back in April,
I put this down to an affinity with the Chelsea squad which, lets face it, is rather nearer to his age-group than those at most other big clubs.
Since then however, he’s been on a roll, culminating in his unerring prediction that Sweden would beat France in the Euros.
This almost cephalopodic accuracy ( remember Paul the Octopus) is about to be put to it’s sternest test.
According to Dad, England will beat Italy on Sunday.
Hopefully, this is just another example of his prescience rather than a case of being swept up in the mood of the moment. Roy Hodgson has gone from being “why on did they go for this old codger” to “I always knew he was the man for the job” in the space of six weeks.
English football fans, fickle? I don’t know where you get that idea.
All of which provides a fairly tenuous link to the subject at hand – testing date sensitive changes in Oracle. Continue reading →